Speaking as someone who has to deal with bug reports on p5p, no we don't want such reports.

Well, that may be the way you feel, but I've read otherwise, and if you look at the docs for any perl versions, its says perlbug everyting and hope, so thats kind of the only option

We just have to go the effort of marking such reports as rejected.

Hmm, yeah, moderation is work , I've experienced this :) I thank you, for you're patients

If the OP has similar issues on a more recent perl version, then we'll take a look.

I think I understood this part -- don't expect anyone to actually support old versions, that anyone does, is out of the goodness of their heart and love for perl

update: found the quote about old versions in Are you running the latest released version of perl?

Note that reports about bugs in old versions of Perl, especially those which indicate you haven't also tested the current stable release of Perl, are likely to receive less attention from the volunteers who build and maintain Perl than reports about bugs in the current release.

update: here is a thought, you could write a program auto reject all reports about unsupported perl versions, it should be easy given the standardness of perlbug reports :)

Thanks dave